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I know it's not #Caturday any more, but here's a shot from this morning of my little hairball. Nothing special - was just playing with my A6000, and it was either my cat or my feet. Guess you prefer the first.﻿

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It's no wonder that tens of thousands of people go to Champ de Mars and the Trocadero every night to party or just to see the view, because it really is spectacular.Now that I'm done with night photos of the bridges over Thames in London, I think I will bring a real camera to Paris for a couple of weeks and continue with a new project on the Seine at night.Real camera or not, here's a little night atmosphere of a completely random bridge ;-)﻿

It's no wonder that tens of thousands of people go to Champ de Mars and the Trocadero every night to party or just to see the view, because it really is spectacular.Now that I'm done with night photos of the bridges over Thames in London, I think I will bring a real camera to Paris for a couple of weeks and continue with a new project on the Seine at night.Real camera or not, here's a little night atmosphere of a completely random bridge ;-)﻿___

Finally got a chance of making some HDR photos with my Sony A6000. Was curious how well it could do long exposures and how the dynamic range would be. Does a pretty decent job. This is the first multiexposure HDR taken with that camera. And it's Bremen City Hall by the way - just around the corner a couple of hours ago.﻿

Finally got a chance of making some HDR photos with my Sony A6000. Was curious how well it could do long exposures and how the dynamic range would be. Does a pretty decent job. This is the first multiexposure HDR taken with that camera. And it's Bremen City Hall by the way - just around the corner a couple of hours ago.﻿___

Foldio2Just received my Foldio2 (a Kickstarter project) today - a small collapsible lightcube for small object photography. It's lit by two rows of LED lights for making pro pack shots even with your smartphone. Made a short test with what was at hand. The result is straight out of the camera. Works pretty well.﻿

Foldio2Just received my Foldio2 (a Kickstarter project) today - a small collapsible lightcube for small object photography. It's lit by two rows of LED lights for making pro pack shots even with your smartphone. Made a short test with what was at hand. The result is straight out of the camera. Works pretty well.﻿___

I'm not sure the comparison between Flickr and Google Photos is fair. For me they are two very different products. Flickr is a photo community and working very well as such. Google Photos (and Google+) is not. Or at least not working as one. I once thought Google+ would replace Flickr for me, but I actually love Flickr more than ever now for being a real and noise-free photo community site.﻿

I'm not sure the comparison between Flickr and Google Photos is fair. For me they are two very different products. Flickr is a photo community and working very well as such. Google Photos (and Google+) is not. Or at least not working as one. I once thought Google+ would replace Flickr for me, but I actually love Flickr more than ever now for being a real and noise-free photo community site.﻿___

Hands-off Bracketing with Sony A6000 - finallyI have previously complainted that the A6000 doesn't support the combination of auto-bracketing with a timer delay, so you can't do HDR photos without touching the camera while recording.This is a major flaw, and something Sony unfortunately still hasn't fixed neither in the camera nor by adding appropriate options to their smartphone apps.Fortunately though I found the DSLR Remote app. This features IR remote control of the camera. Combining the continous auto bracketing drive mode in the camera, with the remote trigger from DSLR Remote works like a dream. The DSLR Remote app has it's own HDR function too, but this I can't get to work with the camera. Don't know why. But that really doesn't matter when I can just use it for triggering the built-in bracketing function in the camera.DSLR Remote is... more »

Hands-off Bracketing with Sony A6000 - finallyI have previously complainted that the A6000 doesn't support the combination of auto-bracketing with a timer delay, so you can't do HDR photos without touching the camera while recording.This is a major flaw, and something Sony unfortunately still hasn't fixed neither in the camera nor by adding appropriate options to their smartphone apps.Fortunately though I found the DSLR Remote app. This features IR remote control of the camera. Combining the continous auto bracketing drive mode in the camera, with the remote trigger from DSLR Remote works like a dream. The DSLR Remote app has it's own HDR function too, but this I can't get to work with the camera. Don't know why. But that really doesn't matter when I can just use it for triggering the built-in bracketing function in the camera.DSLR Remote is actually a really cool little app supporting many different phones and cameras. Check it out.﻿___

CPU slowing downDo you know the kind of problems that, no matter how you phrase them, you get results about completely different things when searching on Google.I have such a problem and have had it for months now without finding a solution, so now I turn to the community in hope of a solution.I travel with my Dell Latitude laptop between my business office and home office. In both places it's docked in a docking station. Some times, roughly half of them, my CPU stays at 0,76 GHz when it starts up again from sleep mode. I notice it when my browser is slow or my email program is unresponsive. If I pull the power from the docking station, so the laptop runs on batteries, and put the plug back, then the CPU changes to running at 3,6 GHz. This is rather annoying as I often get frustrated about the speed of the computer before I do the plug-thing :-/Any good ideas to what is... more »

CPU slowing downDo you know the kind of problems that, no matter how you phrase them, you get results about completely different things when searching on Google.I have such a problem and have had it for months now without finding a solution, so now I turn to the community in hope of a solution.I travel with my Dell Latitude laptop between my business office and home office. In both places it's docked in a docking station. Some times, roughly half of them, my CPU stays at 0,76 GHz when it starts up again from sleep mode. I notice it when my browser is slow or my email program is unresponsive. If I pull the power from the docking station, so the laptop runs on batteries, and put the plug back, then the CPU changes to running at 3,6 GHz. This is rather annoying as I often get frustrated about the speed of the computer before I do the plug-thing :-/Any good ideas to what is causing this problem?﻿___

One of the things that distinguishes Europe's old cities apart is how well old and new is integrated. Rome is a good example of how wrong things can go with "eye poop" everywhere. London is at the other end of the scale with Copenhagen and Berlin. For instance the beautiful Millennium Bridge towards St Paul's Cathedral.﻿

One of the things that distinguishes Europe's old cities apart is how well old and new is integrated. Rome is a good example of how wrong things can go with "eye poop" everywhere. London is at the other end of the scale with Copenhagen and Berlin. For instance the beautiful Millennium Bridge towards St Paul's Cathedral.﻿___

Tried my new Sony A6000 in the studio for the first time. Using a digital viewfinder with a flash setup in a semi-dark studio is hardly ideal. It can be done, but I don't feel in control like when doing it with an ordinary viewfinder.That said, using it for natural light photos, like the one below, is a completely different thing. It gives pretty good results, even at high ISO. This is a good companion for the more atmospheric photos.﻿

Tried my new Sony A6000 in the studio for the first time. Using a digital viewfinder with a flash setup in a semi-dark studio is hardly ideal. It can be done, but I don't feel in control like when doing it with an ordinary viewfinder.That said, using it for natural light photos, like the one below, is a completely different thing. It gives pretty good results, even at high ISO. This is a good companion for the more atmospheric photos.﻿___

I know it's not #Caturday any more, but here's a shot from this morning of my little hairball. Nothing special - was just playing with my A6000, and it was either my cat or my feet. Guess you prefer the first.﻿

I know it's not #Caturday any more, but here's a shot from this morning of my little hairball. Nothing special - was just playing with my A6000, and it was either my cat or my feet. Guess you prefer the first.﻿___

Sony A6000 first impressionsBrought my new A6000 to a party last night. That was my first actual use of the camera. I didn't buy it for doing that kind of photography, so a f/4 lens isn't the most suitable for indoor photography at night. But I must say that at the Intelligent Auto mode it did a pretty good job capturing the party.Experimented a little more today with the face recognition and eye focus and that works very well too, but I'll have to practice not doing my own single point focusing :-)It's pretty noisy for a mirrorless camera. Even my Canon DSLR can take photos without any sound if using the live view mode, so I really didn't expect the A6000 to be that indiscrete.I like HDR, and I was looking forward to using the camera for that, so I could carry less equipment around at night. With a lighter camera I could use a lighter tripod. Unfortunately... more »

Sony A6000 first impressionsBrought my new A6000 to a party last night. That was my first actual use of the camera. I didn't buy it for doing that kind of photography, so a f/4 lens isn't the most suitable for indoor photography at night. But I must say that at the Intelligent Auto mode it did a pretty good job capturing the party.Experimented a little more today with the face recognition and eye focus and that works very well too, but I'll have to practice not doing my own single point focusing :-)It's pretty noisy for a mirrorless camera. Even my Canon DSLR can take photos without any sound if using the live view mode, so I really didn't expect the A6000 to be that indiscrete.I like HDR, and I was looking forward to using the camera for that, so I could carry less equipment around at night. With a lighter camera I could use a lighter tripod. Unfortunately you can't combine the bracketing feature with the timer delay. The photos will be taken when pressing the shutter button. That renders this function completely unusable as the camera should be completely free of movement, and it can't be when you're pressing the button. Sony could have fixed this with their Bracket Pro App, but they didn't. They could also have fixed this by supporting bracketing from the remote control app, but they didn't. This is a serious error and something I didn't even think I had to check. One star gone in my book :-(﻿___

There are many brilliant photographers in this collection that deserves respect, but I hate when good photographers are defined and illustrated by WHO they photographed. Brad Pitt and Barack Obama doesn't make a good portrait or photographer all by themselves. Good stories and businesses maybe.﻿

There are many brilliant photographers in this collection that deserves respect, but I hate when good photographers are defined and illustrated by WHO they photographed. Brad Pitt and Barack Obama doesn't make a good portrait or photographer all by themselves. Good stories and businesses maybe.﻿___

New family member today. Didn't have much time to test it today, so I'm looking forward to that in the days to come. I did realize one thing though: The included manual sucks. Bigtime. It doesn't have to teach me how to photograph (hopefully) but it's hardly more than a button map, and I would like to know the features that could easily be missed. So I bought Gary Friedman's "The Complete Guide to Sony’s Alpha 6000 Digital Camera". 600 pages might be a little over the top, but it seems like an OK book.﻿

New family member today. Didn't have much time to test it today, so I'm looking forward to that in the days to come. I did realize one thing though: The included manual sucks. Bigtime. It doesn't have to teach me how to photograph (hopefully) but it's hardly more than a button map, and I would like to know the features that could easily be missed. So I bought Gary Friedman's "The Complete Guide to Sony’s Alpha 6000 Digital Camera". 600 pages might be a little over the top, but it seems like an OK book.﻿___

VirtualDubI'm starting with timelapse again. Did a little last summer, but got tired of GoPro's crappy and buggy GoPro Studio software - and got busy with many other things. But now it's time again. Gave GoPro Studio a second chance. But hell no! Not only does it crash now and then, and insists on chunking the timelapse into strange parts. It also outputs in their own CinePro codec, that most other programs don't like. I really don't get it why so many proprietary codecs are needed. Grrrrr!So - VirtualDub is installed now. Maybe an old program, but it works perfectly and makes a brilliant result. Time to process the 250 GB timelapse photos on stock.﻿

VirtualDubI'm starting with timelapse again. Did a little last summer, but got tired of GoPro's crappy and buggy GoPro Studio software - and got busy with many other things. But now it's time again. Gave GoPro Studio a second chance. But hell no! Not only does it crash now and then, and insists on chunking the timelapse into strange parts. It also outputs in their own CinePro codec, that most other programs don't like. I really don't get it why so many proprietary codecs are needed. Grrrrr!So - VirtualDub is installed now. Maybe an old program, but it works perfectly and makes a brilliant result. Time to process the 250 GB timelapse photos on stock.﻿___

Just watched Boyhood with the kid. Obviously unique, and quite okay for a drama almost 3 hours long. The awards are well deserved. I kind of think that it captures parents growing up better than kids growing up. The feeling of getting old and not knowing what happened to all that time in between. And yet a reminder of that short moment, when life seemed to unfold. Recommended indeed.﻿

Just watched Boyhood with the kid. Obviously unique, and quite okay for a drama almost 3 hours long. The awards are well deserved. I kind of think that it captures parents growing up better than kids growing up. The feeling of getting old and not knowing what happened to all that time in between. And yet a reminder of that short moment, when life seemed to unfold. Recommended indeed.﻿___

I'm waiting for the Canon 5DS, but I don't want to get the first batches, so I might have to wait for almost a year. My current camera (5DII) is getting rather old now, and I fear every day that it will stop working. So I need a companion for it, especially with the confirmation season coming up. I've decided for a Sony A6000 with a Zeiss 16-70mm (24-105 equiv). I've had many different brands, but never a Sony. I really look forward to getting it in the coming week. New toys ... weeeeeh!﻿

I'm waiting for the Canon 5DS, but I don't want to get the first batches, so I might have to wait for almost a year. My current camera (5DII) is getting rather old now, and I fear every day that it will stop working. So I need a companion for it, especially with the confirmation season coming up. I've decided for a Sony A6000 with a Zeiss 16-70mm (24-105 equiv). I've had many different brands, but never a Sony. I really look forward to getting it in the coming week. New toys ... weeeeeh!﻿___

Just watched the "Finding Vivian Maier" documentary. I knew parts of the story, but this is truly an exceptional and touching story. Can't help wondering that if she was discovered by sheer coincidence, how many amazing works of undiscovered artists are lost forever?Wonderful documentary about a story that is both tragic and simply beautiful. An insight into a kind of excentric people that we have probably all met at some point in life. If you ever get a chance to see it, you really should!﻿

Just watched the "Finding Vivian Maier" documentary. I knew parts of the story, but this is truly an exceptional and touching story. Can't help wondering that if she was discovered by sheer coincidence, how many amazing works of undiscovered artists are lost forever?Wonderful documentary about a story that is both tragic and simply beautiful. An insight into a kind of excentric people that we have probably all met at some point in life. If you ever get a chance to see it, you really should!﻿___

Despite Canavero’s enthusiasm, many surgeons and neuroscientists believe massive technical hurdles push full body transplants into the distant future. The starkest problem is that no one knows how to reconnect spinal nerves and make them work again. Were that possible, people paralysed by spinal injuries could have surgery to make them walk again.﻿___If Hell doesn't exist, we can always trust mankind to create it.

Very funny that this is considered "german style". I think she is somehow confused about the "US style" not being the norm of the rest of the world.Reminds me of a story some years back. I was helping some american scouts planning a trip to Denmark, and I received a list of questions from their worried parents. One of the questions was: "What is the murder rate". I don't know if they believed the answer, but they came to Denmark for sure ;-)I think some americans need to travel more with open eyes. And if they can't travel, maybe they should read some Goethe, Montessori, Steiner and other thinkers, which have greatly influenced how parenting and education is done in Europe and most of the developed world.﻿

Very funny that this is considered "german style". I think she is somehow confused about the "US style" not being the norm of the rest of the world.Reminds me of a story some years back. I was helping some american scouts planning a trip to Denmark, and I received a list of questions from their worried parents. One of the questions was: "What is the murder rate". I don't know if they believed the answer, but they came to Denmark for sure ;-)I think some americans need to travel more with open eyes. And if they can't travel, maybe they should read some Goethe, Montessori, Steiner and other thinkers, which have greatly influenced how parenting and education is done in Europe and most of the developed world.﻿___

Fake friend requestsRecently I've got a lot "X accepted your friend request"-notifications on Facebook from people that I don't know and in many cases don't have any friends in common with.At first I just thought that it might be very old requests I've forgotten about, maybe someone I met in a facebook group, but I started wondering, as I rarely make friendship requests on Facebook. Yesterday I decided to investigate further, and asked one of the persons when she received a friend request from me. And she got it only a few days back, which makes me 100% sure, that it didn't actually come from me in person.The person I asked, I can actually find in my activity log for last week that I asked for friendship, but not a single one of the many other persons.I've searched around for this problem and it seems to be quite common, but in no cases in the... more »

Fake friend requestsRecently I've got a lot "X accepted your friend request"-notifications on Facebook from people that I don't know and in many cases don't have any friends in common with.At first I just thought that it might be very old requests I've forgotten about, maybe someone I met in a facebook group, but I started wondering, as I rarely make friendship requests on Facebook. Yesterday I decided to investigate further, and asked one of the persons when she received a friend request from me. And she got it only a few days back, which makes me 100% sure, that it didn't actually come from me in person.The person I asked, I can actually find in my activity log for last week that I asked for friendship, but not a single one of the many other persons.I've searched around for this problem and it seems to be quite common, but in no cases in the facebook support forum has Facebook themselves replied with an explanation.Anyone experienced anything like this?

I don't allow many services to get access to my facebook information, but just to be sure, I've deleted the authorization to everything but the most essential stuff, changed my passwords and expired all authorized devices.﻿___

When backup paysYesterday I got value for my money. Probably so much that it pays for decades using Crashplan.I use Google Drive for everything in my companies. Everything is stored online. For collaboration purposes I have many folder structures that are shared with different groups - administrative persons, accountants, board members, business partners etc. Some of them just use the Google Drive web interface, others - like myself - use the syncronization feature of Google Drive, and stores everything in a physical copy on the local drive.Yesterday one of those people was infected with ransomware. Every single file, in a large administrative folder structure, was encrypted and, with Google Drive working very well, every file was instantaneously syncronized with everyone else. Me included, of course.Google Drive only offers file-by-file revisions and has, as far as I know, no... more »

When backup paysYesterday I got value for my money. Probably so much that it pays for decades using Crashplan.I use Google Drive for everything in my companies. Everything is stored online. For collaboration purposes I have many folder structures that are shared with different groups - administrative persons, accountants, board members, business partners etc. Some of them just use the Google Drive web interface, others - like myself - use the syncronization feature of Google Drive, and stores everything in a physical copy on the local drive.Yesterday one of those people was infected with ransomware. Every single file, in a large administrative folder structure, was encrypted and, with Google Drive working very well, every file was instantaneously syncronized with everyone else. Me included, of course.Google Drive only offers file-by-file revisions and has, as far as I know, no functionality to restore entire folder structures. With Crashplan running in the background, making backups continously, I could easily detach the infected account, and restore everything to just minutes before the incident. Not a single Word document was lost.I love online backup.﻿___

I am a strong believer that no matter the field you're working in, you should pay a lot of attention to what your young peers are doing. Not doing so, you'll become obsolete faster than you expect.Flickr's 20under20 is a great starting point for photographers that would like to be inspired by the next generation. They ARE coming no matter what you do, so you can either accept the challenge and get the best out of it, or just wither and die. Your pick.﻿

I am a strong believer that no matter the field you're working in, you should pay a lot of attention to what your young peers are doing. Not doing so, you'll become obsolete faster than you expect.Flickr's 20under20 is a great starting point for photographers that would like to be inspired by the next generation. They ARE coming no matter what you do, so you can either accept the challenge and get the best out of it, or just wither and die. Your pick.﻿___

Umbrella with holesI really like to use an umbrella for reflection when doing flash photography on-the-go. Living in a flat, windy country using umbrellas is sometimes a little hard no matter how heavy the lightstand is. I have been thinking about finding (or making) an umbrella with holes - perforations. This would probably make it less prone to get caught by the wind and knocked over. Anybody ever tried that, or even know where to find such an umbrella?﻿

Umbrella with holesI really like to use an umbrella for reflection when doing flash photography on-the-go. Living in a flat, windy country using umbrellas is sometimes a little hard no matter how heavy the lightstand is. I have been thinking about finding (or making) an umbrella with holes - perforations. This would probably make it less prone to get caught by the wind and knocked over. Anybody ever tried that, or even know where to find such an umbrella?﻿___

I could add my imageprograf printer to my list of stuff that I thought I couldn't live without. Today people either order their own prints or I order them for them at some of the print houses. The quality they can deliver is just as good.I use the printer so rarely that whenever I actually want to use it, I have to start with buying a replacement ink cartridge. With 12x130ml it's quite expensive to keep running it that way.But today I decided to give it another shot, and maybe finally get to print some photos for myself. And ordered the grey cartridge that is now empty...﻿

I could add my imageprograf printer to my list of stuff that I thought I couldn't live without. Today people either order their own prints or I order them for them at some of the print houses. The quality they can deliver is just as good.I use the printer so rarely that whenever I actually want to use it, I have to start with buying a replacement ink cartridge. With 12x130ml it's quite expensive to keep running it that way.But today I decided to give it another shot, and maybe finally get to print some photos for myself. And ordered the grey cartridge that is now empty...﻿___